Content tagged with “Jobs”
The US energy renaissance and related manufacturing job boom could be a solution for millions of unemployed Americans, according to a panel of experts gathered at the Aspen Institute yesterday. One...
Tags: Jobs, Job Training, Manufacturing and Society in the 21st Century Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and chairman of Microsoft, discussed higher education at the 2012 Washington Ideas Forum. See our full coverage of the event...
Tags: Washington Ideas Forum, Bill Gates, Education, Jobs This is the fifth conversation in a roundtable series in 2012 titled "Reinventing Low Wage Work: Ideas That Can Work for Employees, Employers and the Economy." Low wage jobs are a growing part of...
Tags: Economic Opportunities Program, Jobs, low-wage work, reinventing low wage The US manufacturing sector has seen significant job loss and other strains for many years. Though it has been one of the bright spots in the US economy since 2009, growth has slowed after a strong...
Tags: Manufacturing and Society in the 21st Century, Jobs This is the fourth conversation in a roundtable series in 2012 titled "Reinventing Low Wage Work: Ideas That Can Work for Employees, Employers and the Economy." Low wage jobs are a growing part of...
Tags: low-wage work, Economic Opportunities Program, Jobs, reinventing low wage Eli Broad, founder of the Broad Foundation and renowned business leader, spoke on education as the key to succeeding in the global economy at this summer's Aspen Ideas Festival. Watch the full...
Tags: Election 2012, Eli Broad, Education, Jobs, Deficit reduction, Education and Society Program, Economic Opportunities Program In Washington for meetings at the International Monetary Fund, Lebanese economist and advisor to the Ministry of Fiannce Toufic Gaspard addressed a group of policymakers on the economic opportunities...
Tags: Finance, Jobs, economy, stability, unemployment Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks with PBS Newshour's Jim Lehrer about innovation and the global economy.
Tags: Jobs, innovation, economy American workers are struggling in a labor market whose fundamentals are changing. Jobs are hard to find and they don’t pay like they used to. Good jobs require more education than in the past....
Tags: Jobs, economy, Economic Opportunity Program 
